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Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,
whither it flows back again.

Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
With joy the spirit moves and burns;
So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
Our light returns.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

Wisdom's Pearl doth often dwell
Closed in Fancy's rainbow shell

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,
for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,
truth is an ideal whole.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.